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Junior Recital: Monica Silva, Cello; March 19, 2016, Monica Silva Cello

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 19, 2016
Saturday Evening
6:00 p.m.

Hillman College Is A Different World From Where You Come From: A Thematic Analysis Of Relationships In A Different World, Natilie Williams

Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the identity and relationships portrayed in the television series, A Different World. Although the popular series ended in 1993, this show continues to resonate with the African-American community. Specifically, Ron, D. Wayne, and Whitley are the primary characters of focus. Ron and D. Wayne maintain a brotherhood, while Whitley and D. Wayne maintain a romantic relationship. Both of these relationships include implicit expectations, illustrate varying levels of reciprocity, and provide identity-shaping communicative feedback.

Writing Resistance: Agency And Politics In The Postmodern And Contemporary Novel, Bradley Michael Poling

Theses and Dissertations

This project seeks to substantiate a key ambivalence at the heart of contemporary literature: what does it mean to "return" to politics? Critics of contemporary literature have outlined the new literary aesthetic, using social and political engagement as a key component in distinguishing the contemporary novel from its postmodern predecessor. This project, in response to this claim, will examine both the discursive and representation politics of two landmark postmodern novels, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Don DeLillo's Libra, while examining Jennifer Eganâ??s A Visit from the Goon Squad as a descendent of this literary lineage. This project argues that the …

Faculty Recital: Andy Rummel, Tuba; March 17, 2016, Andy Rummel Tuba

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Kemp Recital Hall
March 17, 2016
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Queer Horizons: Queer Assemblages And ( Re ) Visioning The"Coming-Out"Trauma Narrative In Fiction, A Critical Introduction, Eric Jason Pitman

Theses and Dissertations

The experience of many queer subjects in "coming-out" often results in a great deal of continued adversity over the course of their lifetimes, in spite of what popular, exceptionalized narratives such as the "It Gets Better" campaign might suggest. "Coming out" often entails a great deal of trauma, thus making the need to continue "coming out" a source from which anguish continues to emanate and affect queer bodies. Unfortunately, there are few fictional texts dealing specifically with "coming-out" trauma narratives. Queer subjects who continue to endure trauma through the act of "coming out" often discover that the written worlds of …

The 1622 Powhatan Uprising And Its Impact On Anglo-Indian Relations, Michael Jude Kramer

Theses and Dissertations

On March 22, 1622, Native Americans under the Powhatan war-leader Opechancanough launched surprise attacks on English settlements in Virginia. The attacks wiped out between one-quarter and one-third of the colony's European population and hastened the collapse of the Virginia Company of London, a joint stock company to which England's King James I had granted the right to establish settlements in the New World. Most significantly, the 1622 Powhatan attacks in Virginia marked a critical turning point in Anglo-Indian relations.

Following the famous 1614 marriage of the Native American Pocahontas to Virginia colonist John Rolfe and her conversion to Christianity, English …

A Law For Rulers And People: David Davis, Ex Parte Milligan, And Constitutional Liberalism During The Civil War Era, John Lewis Moreland

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the political life of Judge David Davis, his drafting of Ex parte Milligan, and the opinion’s impact on the partisanship and political instability of Reconstruction.

Disparities In Moldovan Place-Identity A Product Of Systemic Stratification, Robyn Savacool

Theses and Dissertations

Place-identity is a concept that examines the corresponding relationship between the self and space. Much work has been accomplished on this topic in environmental psychology and geography, but sociological research on this concept is scarce. This project employs reflexive participant photography, qualitative methods and an analytical framework derived from place-identity theory to research the affect of socioeconomic status on place-identity in the Republic of Moldova. Socioeconomic status consists of four sub-variables - parents's professions, formative loci and experience from formative loci - which further represent class-status and community-society constructs, respectively. These constructs were compared to assess the predominate variables in …

Virginity And Intellectual Construction: The Function Of Virginity Within The Early English Novel, Jayna Morgan Leipart Guttilla

Theses and Dissertations

This project situates the state of virginity as both a narrative and mode of behavior within Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. By challenging the supposition that feminine virginity in eighteenth-century novels is presented as both an intellectual and physical disability, this thesis allows for a reconsideration of how virginity functions in the early novel. I place virginity in three distinct and yet simultaneous modes of thinking that contributed to the conflicting and contradictory images of women that were available to purchase in print: virginity as moral intelligence and form of resistance; virginity as an intellectual disability, and the loss of virginity …

Woodland Period Rockshelter Use In The Upper Great Lakes: A Multiscalar Perspective From Grand Island, Michigan, Kelsey Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

Despite the integral role that caves and rockshelters have traditionally played in archaeological inquiry throughout North America, they have largely been neglected as a focus of study and recorded examples have been poorly integrated into regional discourse in the Upper Great Lakes region. Most rockshelters in the Upper Great Lakes region formed as sea caves during higher lake level stages and became increasingly terrestrial as lake levels receded, resulting in an abundance of rockshelters and other shoreline features that are now inland from the current shoreline, very few of which have been subjected to archaeological investigation.

To address this disparity, …

Junior Recital: Mark Grigoletti, Flute; March 4, 2016, Mark Grigoletti Flute

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 4, 2016
Friday Evening
6:30 p.m.

Ensemble Concerts: University Band And Symphonic Bands, March 2, 2016, Martin H. Seggelke Conductor, Shannon Schaffer Conductor

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
March 2, 2016
Wednesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, March 2016, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Spatial Organization Of Lithic Technology At The Mather-Klauer Lodge Site: A Terminal Woodland Occupation On Grand Island, Michigan, Andrew L. Mallo

Theses and Dissertations

The Mather-Klauer Lodge site is a Terminal Woodland (c.a. AD 600- AD 1600) occupation of the west side of Grand Island, Michigan, where Echo Creek empties into Lake Superior. Excavations by Illinois State University field schools and the Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group identified a buried, compact, greasy living surface containing four hearth features, a storage pit, and over 20,000 pieces of lithic debitage. Analysis of the lithic assemblage shows that the organization of lithic technology at the Mather-Klauer Lodge site utilized the bipolar reduction technique to reduce locally available quartz cobbles with the goal of producing flakes of various shapes …

Graduate Recital: Felipe Rodrigues, Piano; February 28, 2016, Felipe Rodrigues Piano

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Kemp Recital Hall
February 28, 2016
Sunday Morning
11:30 a.m.

Junior Recital: Matthew James, Percussion; February 28, 2016, Matthew James Percussion

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 28, 2016
Sunday Afternoon
2:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Phillip Dempsey, Tenor; February 28, 2016, Phillip Dempsey Tenor

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Kemp Recital Hall
February 28, 2016
Sunday Evening
6:00 p.m.

Junior Recital: Francis Favis, Percussion; February 28, 2016, Francis Favis Percussion

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 28, 2016
Sunday Afternoon
4:00 p.m.

Guest Artist Recital, Jupiter String Quartet: Nelson Lee, Violin; Megan Freivogel, Violin; Liz Freivogel, Viola; Daniel Mcdonough, Cello; February 27, 2016, Nelson Lee, Violin, Megan Freivogel, Violin, Liz Freivogel, Viola, Daniel Mcdonough, Cello

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 27, 2016
Saturday Afternoon
2:00 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Alexandra Clay, Flute; February 27, 2016, Alexandra Clay Flute

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 27, 2016
Saturday Morning
11:30 a.m.

Graduate Recital: Alex Clay, Flute; February 27, 2016, Alex Clay Flute

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 27, 2016
Saturday Morning
11:30 a.m.

Senior Recital: Mitchell Schaeflein, Tenor; February 27, 2016, Mitchell Schaeflein Tenor

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 27, 2016
Saturday Evening
6:30 p.m.

Arts Integration: Establishing Teacher Candidates' Self-Efficacy When Engaging With The Arts, Michael J. Vetere Iii

Theses and Dissertations

Many teacher candidates who enter teacher education programs have received altered curricula that addressed the new common core of reading, writing, and mathematics (Beveridge 2010). This new common core curriculum neglects the importance of arts education. These students who have not been exposed to arts education, are reluctant to engage in the arts and fully participate in an arts education course as part of their teacher preparation (Hallam, Gupta, & Lee, 2008). These teacher candidates exhibit a low level of arts engagement and arts teaching self-efficacy and are therefore less confident with engaging and teaching the arts (Garvis, 2009). The …

Student Ensemble: Symphonic Winds, February 24, 2016, Martin H. Seggelke Conductor

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Center for the Performing Arts
February 24, 2016
Wednesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Student Recital: Convocation Hour, February 23, 2016, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 23, 2016
Tuesday Morning
11:00 a.m.

Sophomore Joint Recital: Riley Carter; Devin Cano; Casey Dierlam, Piano; February 23, 2016, Riley Carter, Devin Cano, Casey Dierlam Piano

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Kemp Recital Hall
February 23, 2016
Tuesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Student Ensemble: Afternoon Of Brass, February 21, 2016, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 21, 2016
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

Student Ensemble: Redbird Road Concert, February 19, 2016, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Westminster Village, Bloomington
February 19, 2016
Friday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Guest Artist: Silvan Negruţiu, Piano; February 18, 2016, Silvan Negruţiu Piano

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 18, 2016
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Guest Artist: Dennis Tobenski, Tenor; February 17, 2016, Dennis Tobenski Tenor

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
February 17, 2016
Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.